You can sell it to other players and there are plenty of online gold services willing to buy it as well. There was relatively famous case where a player early in the history of EQ2 figured out how to duplicate items in the game by mistake one day and then sell them back to the vendor. He made so much gold doing so that he started selling the gold to other players and online gold shops for real cash. In just a few months he had made over $80,000 before Sony figured it out and patched the bug.
I didn't say they were violating the constitution or rule of law. I said they weren't supporting the constitution and rule of law. They are actively hindering their users right to free speech and this gentlemans access to funds to provide for a fair trial. It's not illegal, it's immoral. I'd say the same thing if it were funds to defend Charlie Manson or Gandhi. They have a right to refuse service to anyone, just like I have a right to never use Paypal again.
Eventually services like paypal will be the ONLY way to transfer money long distances, and the chilling affect that will have on situations like this when all these service collectively decided someone shouldn't be allowed to have money any more.
There really is no excuse for this at all. We're all entitled to a fair trial and the best legal defense available to us. This signifies that Paypal doesn't support the constitution or the rule of law. Shameful.
This is a storm that's been brewing for years now. On EQ2 servers they sold in-game money for real money, then once you were in the gave there was a goblin that was basically a slot machine... They took the goblin out eventually, but that kind of misses the fact that if they are saying the in-game money has real value, the ENTIRE game is a slot machine.
Speech recognition sucks and always will. I can hotkey my way to any program faster than I can say the name of it. Simply double clicking and icon is super easy. Why do I want to have to say "Computer! Open! Porn!!!" when I have a shortcut to all my porn on my desktop? it doesn't even make sense. And entering urls? It would take 10min just to get the url at the top of this article in.
On a related note: I fucking hate teamspeak. If I wanted to talk to you retarded assholes I'd call one of those party lines. Fuck that, I want to play a video game. I don't want to talk to people. For whatever rudimentary communication I need I can type.
Put lowjack on the thing and set it to disable the vehicle if it's outside US sovereign soil. This feature alone could saves tens of thousands of lives and soldiers riding the vehicle would probably be the safest troops on the planet.
The badge will be left sitting on the keyboard and finger print scanners can be fooled by a simple black and white photocopy of the users finger print. What little improvement the vendor may or may not have provided with the sonar feature was quickly eliminated by the introduction of convenience features made to alleviate what would obviously become tedious shortly after installation.
If the data truely needs that kind of security the answer is simple. When the inactivity time limit is reached and the machine is locked, a supervisor needs to be notified, and incident filed. The manager should have to find the machine and verify that no one is there illicitly using the station and then follow up with the employee, possibly with formal documentation. Employees would learn to lock their computers almost immediately.
At my workspace we use the much simpler method of policing ourselves. When we see someones walked away we quickly send out an email on their behalf declaring they will be bringing the donuts tomorrow. I'm sure many other shops do the same as it works quite well.
Well, I'd almost agree with you... BUT... The Tolkien estate sat on the rights to make a Lord of the Rings movie for decades. They were approached many times and turned it down many times. When they finally got the offer they accepted it really was the best telling of the story they could have gotten short of a huge 10 part series on HBO or something. You can argue weather or not you like the movies, but they turned down a lot of offers that really wouldn't have done the books justice but would have made them a lot of money... and there was no guarantee they'd ever get the offer they did. Up until it really happened I'd have doubted it would have ever gotten made.
Now all the wildlife is perfectly preserved for future generations to study after we've finished killing them all off. Oil companies are always thinking of our children.
Having been to the heart of Ethiopia, I can tell you what they really need are jobs. Yea, food, education, clean water... that's all good, but none of it will remain there without money and they only way to keep money there is to build factories to employee the people. "Nothing but nets" nearly put every net manufacturer in Africa out of business. Food aid in Hattie drove most of the local food growers, distribution networks and street vendors out of business.
Instead of giving them free laptops, how about we invest in real books... put the publishing company IN the community where the books are needed and hire the populace to produce them. Then sell those books to charities at a discount rate to be given to school children. You employ hundreds of adults, educate thousands of kids and leave an industry in place that could last for decades.
Why would I want a connection between 2 PCs that is faster than the connection between my buss and hard drive. This is just stupid. I've got multiple quad-core PCs with Solid state drives on SATA... while moving files across my network I can barely break 10mb per second... much less hit 100mb... 1Gig connections are still laughable... and 10gig? That's just plain stupid. Connections between switches and routers maybe but it has no real use to your average PC user.
So the very first, and most important certification is: Everything's open source... right? right? No? How long do you think it will take for them to make one of the certs "Microsoft Genuine Advantage Certified"? A month?
My companies solution to this was to ship the entire email nightmare over to Google, let them deal with it. In fact, if law enforcement were to REQUIRE we do something anyway I'd think we'd just drop email all together. It's not profitable, we can't charge for it, it's nothing but a headache. So basically law enforcement would just be force ALL email off shore.
Has anyone thought he may not have to delete anything? They need to prove he was attempting to circumvent copyright protection devices. My understanding of the situation is that he was trying to restore the ability to boot to linux on the PS3, a feature that was included on the device when he purchased it. If that's all he really did then there isn't really anything to find on his computers other than contacts and login credentials for various accounts that Sony was certainly interested in.
Wait, a company says their thingy is 64% faster! Then other people test it and say no it's not... then the company says "You have to test it OUR way!" Is the next step that Google specifically engineers their code just to run the benchmarks themselves faster with no real improvement anywhere else? Sound familiar? (ATI/Nvidia)
You forgot to mention that the transmit and receive devices in his books were the size of Jupiter, had a transmission speed of a few meg a second for the whole solar system but could transmit information faster than the speed of light. It was instantaneous transmission of information but had very limited bandwidth. As a result, it was a lot like Usenets from the 80s.
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You can sell it to other players and there are plenty of online gold services willing to buy it as well. There was relatively famous case where a player early in the history of EQ2 figured out how to duplicate items in the game by mistake one day and then sell them back to the vendor. He made so much gold doing so that he started selling the gold to other players and online gold shops for real cash. In just a few months he had made over $80,000 before Sony figured it out and patched the bug.
Does that count as "Cashing in"?
I think we've already meddled in Libya's affairs quite enough thank you.
I didn't say they were violating the constitution or rule of law. I said they weren't supporting the constitution and rule of law. They are actively hindering their users right to free speech and this gentlemans access to funds to provide for a fair trial. It's not illegal, it's immoral. I'd say the same thing if it were funds to defend Charlie Manson or Gandhi. They have a right to refuse service to anyone, just like I have a right to never use Paypal again.
Eventually services like paypal will be the ONLY way to transfer money long distances, and the chilling affect that will have on situations like this when all these service collectively decided someone shouldn't be allowed to have money any more.
And this is what the feds used to hand out billions in stimulus dollars to the telcos. Hurray!!!
There really is no excuse for this at all. We're all entitled to a fair trial and the best legal defense available to us. This signifies that Paypal doesn't support the constitution or the rule of law. Shameful.
The system consists of a Chuck Norris bobble head with a webcam pointed at it.
This is a storm that's been brewing for years now. On EQ2 servers they sold in-game money for real money, then once you were in the gave there was a goblin that was basically a slot machine... They took the goblin out eventually, but that kind of misses the fact that if they are saying the in-game money has real value, the ENTIRE game is a slot machine.
Speech recognition sucks and always will. I can hotkey my way to any program faster than I can say the name of it. Simply double clicking and icon is super easy. Why do I want to have to say "Computer! Open! Porn!!!" when I have a shortcut to all my porn on my desktop? it doesn't even make sense. And entering urls? It would take 10min just to get the url at the top of this article in.
On a related note: I fucking hate teamspeak. If I wanted to talk to you retarded assholes I'd call one of those party lines. Fuck that, I want to play a video game. I don't want to talk to people. For whatever rudimentary communication I need I can type.
Put lowjack on the thing and set it to disable the vehicle if it's outside US sovereign soil. This feature alone could saves tens of thousands of lives and soldiers riding the vehicle would probably be the safest troops on the planet.
The badge will be left sitting on the keyboard and finger print scanners can be fooled by a simple black and white photocopy of the users finger print. What little improvement the vendor may or may not have provided with the sonar feature was quickly eliminated by the introduction of convenience features made to alleviate what would obviously become tedious shortly after installation.
If the data truely needs that kind of security the answer is simple. When the inactivity time limit is reached and the machine is locked, a supervisor needs to be notified, and incident filed. The manager should have to find the machine and verify that no one is there illicitly using the station and then follow up with the employee, possibly with formal documentation. Employees would learn to lock their computers almost immediately.
At my workspace we use the much simpler method of policing ourselves. When we see someones walked away we quickly send out an email on their behalf declaring they will be bringing the donuts tomorrow. I'm sure many other shops do the same as it works quite well.
If a companies only source of revenue is advertising, it's doomed.
Well, I'd almost agree with you... BUT... The Tolkien estate sat on the rights to make a Lord of the Rings movie for decades. They were approached many times and turned it down many times. When they finally got the offer they accepted it really was the best telling of the story they could have gotten short of a huge 10 part series on HBO or something. You can argue weather or not you like the movies, but they turned down a lot of offers that really wouldn't have done the books justice but would have made them a lot of money... and there was no guarantee they'd ever get the offer they did. Up until it really happened I'd have doubted it would have ever gotten made.
Now all the wildlife is perfectly preserved for future generations to study after we've finished killing them all off. Oil companies are always thinking of our children.
Having been to the heart of Ethiopia, I can tell you what they really need are jobs. Yea, food, education, clean water... that's all good, but none of it will remain there without money and they only way to keep money there is to build factories to employee the people. "Nothing but nets" nearly put every net manufacturer in Africa out of business. Food aid in Hattie drove most of the local food growers, distribution networks and street vendors out of business.
Instead of giving them free laptops, how about we invest in real books... put the publishing company IN the community where the books are needed and hire the populace to produce them. Then sell those books to charities at a discount rate to be given to school children. You employ hundreds of adults, educate thousands of kids and leave an industry in place that could last for decades.
Why would I want a connection between 2 PCs that is faster than the connection between my buss and hard drive. This is just stupid. I've got multiple quad-core PCs with Solid state drives on SATA... while moving files across my network I can barely break 10mb per second... much less hit 100mb... 1Gig connections are still laughable... and 10gig? That's just plain stupid. Connections between switches and routers maybe but it has no real use to your average PC user.
DST sucks when you have kids.
"It's time for night night"
"Why?"
"It's night time"
"No it's not" *Points a light still pouring through window*
"grrrr"
So the very first, and most important certification is: Everything's open source... right? right?
No?
How long do you think it will take for them to make one of the certs "Microsoft Genuine Advantage Certified"? A month?
My companies solution to this was to ship the entire email nightmare over to Google, let them deal with it. In fact, if law enforcement were to REQUIRE we do something anyway I'd think we'd just drop email all together. It's not profitable, we can't charge for it, it's nothing but a headache. So basically law enforcement would just be force ALL email off shore.
Anyone else a bit concerned about something like this in orbit? There wouldn't be any place on earth safe from it.
Has anyone thought he may not have to delete anything? They need to prove he was attempting to circumvent copyright protection devices. My understanding of the situation is that he was trying to restore the ability to boot to linux on the PS3, a feature that was included on the device when he purchased it. If that's all he really did then there isn't really anything to find on his computers other than contacts and login credentials for various accounts that Sony was certainly interested in.
Wait, a company says their thingy is 64% faster! Then other people test it and say no it's not... then the company says "You have to test it OUR way!" Is the next step that Google specifically engineers their code just to run the benchmarks themselves faster with no real improvement anywhere else? Sound familiar? (ATI/Nvidia)
You forgot to mention that the transmit and receive devices in his books were the size of Jupiter, had a transmission speed of a few meg a second for the whole solar system but could transmit information faster than the speed of light. It was instantaneous transmission of information but had very limited bandwidth. As a result, it was a lot like Usenets from the 80s.
I'm sure glad I pirate all my movies and this wont affect me. I feel sorry for all you suckers that buy them legitimately.
Crap, just killed some old dude. Will be late for party... anyone have a link to a CPR guide? He's still gurgling a bit.
What did the steal? Their recipe for maple syrup?